Comments on: Can you hear the flowers sing? Issues for gifted adults

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 23:35:55 +0000

Sudden onset as an adult is possible and how to do it is written down.

By: Keyln

Keyln — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:00:59 +0000

In reply to Langston. I couldn’t agree more. As Someone who feels Neuraligned with you, I am 2e and grew in total Dysfunctional Chaos. I hear the Flowers sing. I have all 5 OE’s and I regularly Positively Disintegrate since a very young age. As an Empath it’s painful to realize how shallow a majority of the people are. They do not want to hear the Flowers Sing. Further, when you are intense and perceptive it tends to spook NT’s that are the least healthy types of people. Almost as if they saw themselves in a mirror, retracting in fear instead of Curious wonder and a willingness to look at themselves without filters and distortions in order to emerge as an improved version of themselves. My Toddler is showing all 5 Overexcitabilities. At just 3 his level of Empathy and his Sense of Humor as a tiny Babe, 2 and 3 is astounding. Unfortunately due to my Family situation as a child I could not afford Empathy at such a young age. My Husband is incredibly Gifted in Software Engineering but not emotionally. I’m more of a People “Whisperer” but I’ve grown to protect my energy from bottomless pits. Most people will not be able to connect with someone like me. My need for deeper topics of conversation will make them uncomfortable and this will make me depressed. Their ability to bury their heads in the sand never ceases to amaze. It’s horrifying to see a majority care so little and yet Profoundly Gifted are tasked with saving these very people from themselves…. Life is darkly funny

By: Langston

Langston — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 02:43:23 +0000

Honestly, if I didn’t mark off nearly every characteristic in a Profoundly Gifted checklist I would’ve remained under the delusion that I was simply mentally ill. I don’t believe IQ test accurately measure (or can even accurately comprehend the concept of) Profound Giftedness. You can go your whole life under the false assumption that the “higher echelons” of society and public intellectuals epitomize intellectual capacities and then wake up one day and be thrown off kilter. The issue becomes when the perception of Giftedness only applies to a very tiny slither of the gifted population and those who are aberrant within this sub-demographic often become the byproduct of miseducation and obfuscation. If you have a 2e child who was put into special education to correct a deficit while unbeknownst to their educators and care givers they have the intellectual aptitude of a college professor it’s safe to assume this level of competence will be overlooked by disorder. So 2e PG children grow up to be “underachieving adults” or, they decide that societal perceptions of success are arbitrary and extraneous and are susceptible to generational malleability. This is why it’s completely common to see a PG person underemployed or completely forgoing higher education to further more stimulating pursuits (pet projects, families, high energy sports, travel). The emotionality of a PG adult is also highly under-addressed in the clinical literature. If your emotional responses are drastically different than the majority of the people you meet it’s likely you would become frustrated by people’s perceived inability to care more or be empathetic. It’s only further in my own adulthood that I discovered my frustration with how people deal with my emotional states was due to not being able to fathom those with less depth of emotions as I did, it also felt rather disheartening when you learn that you can stomach more negativity of emotions for others than they they can’t for you. Over all PG is intensity, and with the right treatment and self awareness that intensity can create diamonds.

By: Pamela Walthall

Pamela Walthall — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:13:48 +0000

I have searched to understand myself, yet not confused, but certain that my ability to see the unseen is real.